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The mean-field limit for the dynamics of large particle systems

François Golse (2003)

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This short course explains how the usual mean-field evolution PDEs in Statistical Physics - such as the Vlasov-Poisson, Schrödinger-Poisson or time-dependent Hartree-Fock equations - are rigorously derived from first principles, i.e. from the fundamental microscopic models that govern the evolution of large, interacting particle systems.

Isotropic hypoellipticity and trend to the equilibrium for the Fokker-Planck equation with high degree potential

Frédéric Hérau (2002)

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We consider the Fokker-Planck equation with a confining or anti-confining potential which behaves at infinity like a possibly high degree homogeneous function. Hypoellipticity techniques provide the well-posedness of the weak-Cauchy problem in both cases as well as instantaneous smoothing and exponential trend to equilibrium. Lower and upper bounds for the rate of convergence to equilibrium are obtained in terms of the lowest positive eigenvalue of the corresponding Witten laplacian,...